Lafayette, Indiana is a city of approximately 70,000 people located in Tippecanoe County. The city is governed by an elected mayor and nine-member city council that are all voted on during municipal elections held every four years. Currently, the Mayor of Lafayette is Tony Roswarski and the City Council consists of: Noah Freeman, Robert Waltz, Jared Evans, David Sanders, Bryce Bartlett, Thomas Shevlin, Jarrett Engle, Pat Kercheval and Bruce Borders. Local politics in Lafayette are focused on ensuring the long-term growth and sustainability of the city through investments in infrastructure such as roads and bridges as well as providing good quality services to residents such as police protection, fire protection and more. Additionally, local politicians often prioritize initiatives to improve education and health initiatives within the community.
The political climate in Lafayette, IN is leaning liberal.
Tippecanoe County, IN is leaning liberal. In Tippecanoe County, IN 48.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tippecanoe county flipped narrowly Democratic, 48.8% to 48.1%.
Tippecanoe county flipped Democratic in 2020, after voting Republican in four of the last six Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lafayette, IN is leaning liberal.
Tippecanoe County, Indiana is leaning liberal.
Lafayette-West Lafayette Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Indiana is somewhat conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Lafayette, Indiana: R R D r r d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Lafayette, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,009 contributions totaling $496,222 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,931 contributions totaling $1,658,502 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $422 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)